Netflix Hid a LukeCage Teaser in the Daredevil Credits

Yesterday was a good one for Marvel fans. Not only did they get the second season of Daredevil on Netflix, but those who watched all 10 episodes made it to an unexpected dessert course: the first official teaser for Luke Cage. In the spot, Cage takes on two gun-wielding toughs in a boxing gym—and these guys clearly never watched Jessica Jones, or else they might have known about the Cage match they had coming. (This one had 36 hits: two clips’ worth of bullets hitting Cage, one thug hitting a window, and Nas’ hit “Made You Look” hitting your ears.) The second nice surprise? We’d known the next show in Marvel’s street-level lineup would be coming to Netflix sometime in 2016, we just figured we’d have longer to wait than September 30.

Pause at: :10, for Mike Colter’s Cage uttering the rare wry line post-bulletstorm—“I’m about sick of always havin’ to buy new clothes.”

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New Trailer For TheBFG Shows Off More of Giant Country

The first teaser for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic book The BFG was just that—a big (friendly) tease. But now we have a full-length trailer, which shows off more of the visual effects and delves into the movie’s central relationship. Newly minted Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance plays the title role, a giant gifted with unnaturally good hearing and speed who delivers good dreams to children. The BFG smuggles away Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill), a lonely orphan, to giant country, where they embark on an adventure to protect humans from the larger giants, like Bloodbottler (Bill Hader) and Flushlumpeater (Jemaine Clement). This full trailer thankfully doesn’t give away too much of the overall plot, mostly revealing the BFG and his friendship with Sophie. But it does go so far as to introduce the antagonists—larger, dangerous giants who make the BFG as much of an outcast in his world as Sophie feels in hers.

Pause at: 0:49 to see some deft motion-capture work from Rylance, hiding in the shadows of a big city. 1:20 to see the BFG chopping his food, a wretched vegetable known as a snozzcumber. 1:45 for Sophie running around in what looks like Dream Country. 1:52 for the full reveal of the CGI work on the BFG’s face. 2:14 for the bigger, meaner giants, and what sounds like Clement’s voice as their leader.

Here Are Some ForceAwakens Deleted Scenes. You’re Welcome

There were so many teasers, trailers, television spots, and new images for fans to pour over in the lead-up to Star Wars: The The Force Awakens that it’s hard to imagine that we’re going to do all of that again. Yet here we are. Today a new teaser dropped for the deleted scenes included on the Force Awakens digital HD and Blu-ray releases, and now the flutter of excitement is back. There will be a total of seven excised scenes, and the minute-long teaser here shows a few precious glimpses of the footage in them. There’s Kylo Ren stalking through the Millennium Falcon; Han, Finn, Chewbacca, and Maz Kanata escaping from a squad of stormtroopers in the basement of Maz’s watering hole after the whole lightsaber vision debacle; and a medical team looking after an injured Finn when he’s returned to the Resistance base following the lightsaber duel with Kylo Ren. The Force Awakens will be available to download April 1, and on Blu-ray April 5, so get ready to pore over every frame of the film for hidden details, and then check out what didn’t quite make the cut.

Veep Is Arriving Just in Time for Election Season

This morning, a nation already suffering from political fatigue awoke, looked at the calendar, and noticed it was only March—collectively realizing that we have eight more months of presidential campaign BS to endure before this election cycle is over. Fortunately, we also awoke to find out there was a new trailer for Veep—the the satirical salve we all need during this time of electioneering.

Yes, Veep, which returns to HBO April 24, is here to feel your pain. And in the new trailer for Season 5—the first without original showrunner Armando Iannucci—we find Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) dealing with the conclusion of an election, instead of embarking on a new one. Her bid for reelection has ended in a tie and now she has to just hang around and “look presidential” while the outcome is determined. Selina also has to deal with a tanking economy and a hook-up with new guest star John Slattery. Luckily for her, she has her wonderful team of occasionally-brilliant nincompoops at her side—including Amy (Anna Chlumsky), who called her “the worst thing to happen to this country since food in buckets” last season. This promises to be good.

Pause at: 0:06 for Gary (Tony Hale) being so Gary. 0:38, classic Selina. 0:49 for Jonah (Timothy Simons) comparing himself to herpes.Essential Quote: “We don’t put a plan into action tomorrow morning, then by Monday it’ll be Greece—the country, not the musical.”—Vice President Tom James (Hugh Laurie)

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